An essay on raising birds.

Their religion prohibits lawsuits. The energy companies know it.

How humanitarian disasters are good for nature.

The story of a face transplant.

On artists using their bodies to blur the line between human and machine.

A fishery, an economy, and a way of life hang in the balance.

A week in the life of Naomi and Spencer Haskell.

The author, an abortion counselor, was 40 and pregnant when a conflicted Catholic woman came to her clinic.

The story behind the iconic photograph of the Holmes family, hiding in the water amidst violent Tasmanian bushfires.

“Jeannie Peeper’s diagnosis meant that, over her lifetime, she would essentially develop a second skeleton. Within a few years, she would begin to grow new bones that would stretch across her body, some fusing to her original skeleton. Bone by bone, the disease would lock her into stillness. The Mayo doctors didn’t tell Peeper’s parents that. All they did say was that Peeper would not live long.”

The discombobulated existence of polar bears and the people trying to save them.

An excerpt from Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America.

The pharmaceutical quest to give women a better sex life.

On the media’s failure to cover climate change.

An investigation into widespread criminal fraud at a generic drug company.

On the biology of animal emotion.

Medicine used to be obsessed with eradicating the tiny bugs that live within us. Now we’re beginning to understand all the ways they keep us healthy.

How a network of evangelical Christian crisis pregnancy centers turned the complex reality behind black abortion rates into a single, fictional story.

An endangered-species murder mystery in Hawaii.

How OxyContin permeated one small town.

“It’s insanity to kill your father with a kitchen knife. It’s also insanity to close hospitals, fire therapists, and leave families to face mental illness on their own.”

How social psychologist Diederik Stapel committed and rationalized an audacious academic fraud, and what his lies reveal about the culture of scientific research.

Marketing research,the pre-Facebook history of ‘likeability,’ and why there will never be a ‘dislike’ button.

Why awareness isn’t saving lives.

On the history of Earth Day and the failure of the modern environmental movement.

Edna Kelly’s brain goes under the knife.